Yogabindu

Author(s): Haribhadrasuri, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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INTRODUCTORY
न चैतद् भूतसंघातमात्रादेवोपपद्यते । . तदन्यभेदकाभावे तद्वैचित्र्याप्रसिद्धितः ॥५६॥
na cailad bhilasanghātamātrūd cropapadyate /
ladanyabhedakabhare tadraicitryaprasiddhitah ||56|| All this ( that is beiug said about the grentness of yoga ) would have made no sense if reality were a conglomeratiou of but physical entities, for the difference in question (i.e. the difference between the yogin's cxperience and the non-yogiu's) remains unaccouuted for unless something else (i.c. something non-physical) is posited as a differentiating factor.
ब्रह्मचर्यण तपसा सद्वेदाध्ययनेन च । विद्यामन्त्रविशेपेण सत्तीर्थासेवनेन च ॥५७॥ पित्रोः सम्यगुपस्थानाद् ग्लानमैषज्यदानतः । देवादिशोधनाच्चैव भवेज्जातिस्मरः पुमान् ॥५८॥ bralımacaryena lapasā sadvedadhyayanena ca / vidyamantravisesena sattirthasevarena ca /15711
pilrok sampag' ifastlanad glānabhaişajyadanatah / : deoddisodhanāc caira bharrj jatismarah pumān 1/58|| A man succeeds in recalling his past life through the instrumentality of a practice of sex-control, a performanace of penance, a study of the auspicious Vedic (i.e. scriptural) texts, resort to appropriate magics and inca. ntations, a journey to the auspicious pilgrimage.centres, a dutiful offering of services to one's parents, a donation of medicines to those down with ailments, a tidying up of the deities ( i.e. the places of deity-worship) and the like.
अत एव न सर्वेपामेतदागमनेऽपि हि । परलोकाद् यथैकस्मात् स्थानात् तनुभृतामिति ॥५९॥ । ata eva na sarveşām clad agamane' pi hi /
paralokād yathaikasmāt sthānāt tanubhștām ili 11591) • That is why not all of those who come from another world (i.e. who take a new birth after having completed the course of a past life ): manage to recall their past life - just as not all persons recall the events of the place from which they all happen to be coming.
न चैतेपामपि ह्येतदुन्मादग्रहयोगतः । सर्वेपामनुभूतार्थस्मरणं स्याद् विशेषतः ॥६०॥ . . na caileşām api ly clad unmadagrahayogataḥ / sarvesam anubhutarthasmaranaim syad visesatah ||GoI/ ...
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